People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
History is more interesting than most people think.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.
The truth is that real history was a lot more complicated than our popular understandings lead us to believe.
The world is very different today than it was in 1968.
I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
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